]]>0SAP Newshttp://www.news-sap.com/?p=1210522015-07-31T15:52:03Z2015-07-31T13:35:16ZWhat do you get when you combine a former Wall Street executive with a business news anchor turned CEO of a major non-profit foundation aimed at empowering youth? Alexis Glick, of course!

Glick recently stopped by the New York City chapter of the SAP Business Women’s Network to share how she successfully navigated through tough career transitions. During her talk, Glick drew on her experiences on Wall Street, at CNBC and the Today Show, and then as Vice President of Fox Business News. Today Glick is the founder and CEO of the GENYOUth Foundation.

You may ask, “How can you make such huge career leaps and remain focused?”

For Glick, the key is staying true to her passions. You must find “something that you are innately passionate about that drives your free time as much as it drives your work time,” she says. The next step is to “take that passion and bring it into what you do every single day.”

In order to find meaning and widespread impact in her career, Glick allowed this passion-driven mindset to guide her to her most recent role as CEO of GENYOUth. GENYOUth is a non-profit that has become one of the largest in-school activity and nutrition organizations aimed at cultivating youth empowerment and healthy communities. GENYOUth successfully services over 13 million students through its flagship program Fuel Up to Play 60.

Beyond helping students live healthier lives, SAP and GENYOUth have partnered to create a digital platform, AdVenture Capital (AdCap), which touches over 35,000 students ages 13+. AdCap empowers youth to become citizen philanthropists by developing plans to improve nutrition and physical activity habits within their communities. Student change agents participate in AdCap contests where they are mentored as they develop “Big Ideas” to improve the health and wellness behaviors of their peers, such as building a greenhouse on school grounds or offering DIY breakfast bars in schools.

Glick with SAP’s Denise Broady.

SAP’s partnership with GENYOUth offers youth a “seat at the table.” Youth are positioned as valuable “alpha influencers” that direct the behaviors of their peers. This influence is cultivated within programs such as AdCap, which value diverse perspectives to find innovative solutions. SAP offers students opportunities to learn from mentors to help nurture their entrepreneurial spirit.

As Glick highlights, passion is the light on our darkest days: For communities saturated with disparity, SAP and GENYOUth teach kids that they are their own source of power and that social change is only one passion-driven “Big Idea” away.

]]>0SAP Newshttp://www.news-sap.com/?p=1210462015-07-31T15:50:00Z2015-07-31T12:30:32ZWhat a great experience! I was recently part of a panel with the Churchill Club @ SAP, Women Tech Executive Roundtable.

I was joined by some fabulous, accomplished women: Judith Bitterli, CMO AVG Technologies, who has started three businesses; Julie Hanna, who has been named by Obama as Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship; Amity Millhiser, who is a Managing Partner for PWC in Silicon Valley and was voted one of 50 most powerful women in Technology; and our great host and facilitator Deborah Perry Piscione, who runs her own business and is the bestselling author of Secrets of Silicon Valley and the Risk Factor.

I have to say it was great to see that we had a very large diverse audience, which makes me feel positive that we are moving the needle on some of these diverse topics and that people are interested and motivated to attend a meeting at 7:30 on a Friday morning.

The purpose of the event? To share stories and advice, continue to raise awareness, and help other women find their voice. The first questions Deborah asked: “What is the ugly truth out there for women in the tech industry? What are still the big issues that need to be addressed?”

We all had a lot to share on this topic! Judith kicked us off with the story of her first interview for a VP position, which I am sure many of us can relate to, where she was asked if she got the job would she still be able to fulfill her wifely role and isn’t she just going to go off and have babies anyway? Hopefully we have moved on from these prejudicial types of questions, or maybe we are just more careful about what we ask, but the prejudice is still there and we have a ways to go.

I guess there is also still the question some of us have to answer: boardroom or baby? Now I know not all of us decide to have children, but I believe there are ways to have both. What saddened me was that women still say that one of the scary questions they are facing, is “How am I going to tell my boss I am pregnant?” I myself had a similar situation where I had to make a tough decision — do I take a great opportunity or stay doing what I was doing so I can spend some time at home with my new baby. As challenging as these questions can be, you make a decision, you stick with it and nine times out of 10 the next opportunity you get offered it better.

I think we also often hire people who are like us — we need to change this, we need to challenge and remind ourselves and our colleagues to look more broardly, hire people who are different and therefore have different skills. When I was offered another role that was quite a lot more senior then where I was at that point in my career, I wondered if to be successful I should play a role – be more like a man. I decided to be myself and I know this was the better choice. Amity had a great idea to encourage us to hire the right candidates. When your are choosing candidates have HR take off the names of the individuals before you read resumes, and only when you decide to interview a candidate do you find out the gender.

I believe we have to work closely with universities and schools, and to encourage young women to enter technical fields. This is our next generation of talented women, and we also need to support women in startups.

Deborah asked us what drives you mad about what women do in the work place. We agreed that we hated it when women were catty about other women and not encouraging of other women’s success. This is unacceptable, we will not get where we need to go if we keep belittling each other. We need to stop fighting with other women and we need to be more supportive.

When asked what we can do to help women succeed, one of the great ideas, was to have a business plan and that women should put more energy into building the plan, than in planning their wedding. We can be supportive of women in the workforce, by not doing meetings at 4:00 pm when you know some women and even men might be picking up their children. Don’t apologize for leaving early.

So what were the key take aways for me?

We need to ensure that our young women do not focus on the statistics of the past, but push to create new positive statistics for the future

Diversity is key — we need both women and men to take on equality in the work place, together we will be more successful

It is ok to be competitive but compete strategically — don’t let jealousy get in the way

We need to equip women with the right skills, and we need to encourage them to take sensible risk

Don’t take things personally at work

Stop belittling our female colleagues; this is not the way to move forward. We need to be a cheerleaders for women

With almost one million electric vehicles already in use on roads around the world, and traffic volume growing daily, utilities are faced with a huge surge in power demands. Can their aging electrical distribution networks, originally built for a bygone era, handle the rising load without the need to rebuild infrastructure? Yes, with the help of sensors in cars, homes, and the power grid. But will this be adequate for business and leisure drivers who need or simply want to drive “to somewhere” right now?

The experts speak.

Prashant Kulkarni, TechMahindra: “If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” (Mahatma Gandhi)

Prateek Saxena, TechMahindra: “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” (Henry Ford)

]]>0Michael Zipfhttp://www.news-sap.com/?p=1209832015-07-30T16:21:58Z2015-07-30T15:55:32ZAfrica is still the only continent not producing enough food to feed its population. So how can SAP help the continent improve its agricultural potential?

Thomas Odenwald, chief strategist for SAP sustainability solutions, recently went on a “Learning Journey” to sub-Saharan Africa. He was invited by Cargill, a global trader, purchaser, and distributer of grain and other agriculturalcommodities, and the largest privately held corporation in the United States in terms of revenue.

For Odenwald, the experience was a great example of co-innovating on making the world run better and improving people’s lives.

SAP News: Thomas, what is a “Learning Journey” and what was the goal?

Odenwald: A Learning Journey begins with the process and practice of exploring new market opportunities. It requires a group of people to immerse themselves in an unfamiliar context, engage with people from diverse backgrounds and explore new perspectives.

The goal is not to find all the answers, but instead to gain insights, challenge assumptions, and forge a broader understanding.

In our case, Cargill partnered with Leaders’ Quest, bringing together 25 thought leaders from business, academia, government agencies, the non-profit sector, and media to South Africa and Zambia.

The group was confronted with questions like

How to produce enough food for a growing, more affluent and increasingly urbanized world in the years ahead by looking at Africa’s food systems?

What infrastructure is needed, especially across borders, to connect the points along supply chains?

Which foods will a rapidly growing urban population need and want?

And how will climate change affect production in different regions?

Why Africa?

Chart: Silvia Gottschalk

Africa is fascinating. It’s got the youngest population on earth (about 200 million people between the ages of 15 and 24 live here), and will double in size by 2045. It is home to some of the world’s fastest-growing economies, has as much as 60 percent of the world’s arable land. Yet a fifth of the population remains undernourished, while 50% of the population live on less than $2 per day. It’s the only country other than India where the working population is growing. Africas agricultural systems have long suffered from underinvestment, and as a result, its countries have struggled to keep up with the productivity growth that many other parts of the developing world have experienced since the 1960s and 1970s.

Africa is also pretty diverse. If you want to study how the world will feed itself in the near future, this is the place to do it.

What were some of your highlights?

We had a very diverse program. Before two days had passed, we had already visited a pig farm, a commercial-scale grain and oilseed processing facility, a smallholder who produces fresh vegetables for an urban market, and the distribution and retail operations of Pick’n Pay, South Africa’s second largest retailer, where we learned what it meant to build a consumer-oriented, sustainable business in very difficult environments during the apartheid regime. Their flagship retail stores and distribution centers can hold their own with the rest of the world.

And in contrast we visited community centers in the poorest townships of Johannesburg and we met with amazing entrepreneurs like Anna and Bertha. Anna Phosa bought four piglets to diversify production on her small cabbage farm. Three years later, she was named “Female Farmer of the Year.” Today, she manages a 315 hectare farm including 2,000 pigs and a breeding stock of 250 sows. Bertha showed us how taking a loan to purchase a simple water pump from NGO Kickstart increased her cabbage harvest 5 – 10 fold.

Poaching is a huge challenge in Africa. Tell us about this initiative that turns elephant and other wildlife poachers into organic farmers.

Sure. We are currently losing four elephants per hour and three rhinos per day through poaching – it’s a huge tragedy out there.That’s why I’m involved in www.groupelephant.com and hope more colleagues will join the fight. Comaco (short for community markets for conservation) is the showcase example of a business-oriented approach which uses economic incentives to encourage environmentally-friendly conservation farming practices for rural small-scale farmers and poachers. It encourages poachers to trade their guns for tools and training in sustainable farming practices and pays above market prices for their produce based on a scorecard system – while mitigating deforestation and promoting organic farming in the process. Today their “ITS WILD” brand products (peanut butter, rice, honey, soy beans, nuts) already exceed $3 million in annual sales. I was truly intrigued by Dale Lewis and his work. The Comaco concept is a win for the community, the wildlife, and the climate. As of today they helped 30,000 farmers turn their lives around. More than 2,200 guns and 80,000 snares have been surrendered, and they planted 10 million trees and 10,000 beehives in the process.

Which role do local subsistence farmers play?

I had the opportunity to stay in the home of a local subsistence farmer in Zambia. These families are struggling for survival by farming small plots of land – but at the same time they are the backbone of the rural economy, responsible for 80% of the food production. Staying with Kalimba’s family in their home, sitting and singing around their campfire, had a lasting impression on me. It’s one thing to talk about people earning less than one dollar a day (with no electricity, no beds, no light, no access to clean water – water has to be carried in from half a mile away), but it’s a different experience to receive their warmth and hospitality. Here, growing enough food for the family always comes before cash crops, and a farmer with a metal roof (rather than thatch) is the envy of his or her neighbors.

Kalimba gave me his rooster as a good-bye gift, according to the tradition the highest gift you can receive from an African family.

SAP has the goal to establish the African region as one of the company’s top-five growth markets globally. How do your learnings help?

SAP has the vision to help Africa run better and improve the lives of its people. That’s why we are making big investments in the coming years.

Corruption, climate change, HIV/AIDS, lack of education, and lack of innovation and entrepreneurship makes food security in this part of the world a daily struggle.

But there is the prospect of giving these farmers better education, better market access and include innovation in local extension services. And that includes IT. Providing market information, providing education and access to financial services can uplift farmers and therefore the economy.

Statistics show that Africa has already the highest return on foreign investment compared with other regions in the developing world. But Africa is still the only continent not producing enough food to feed itself. It’s a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous market space; but if we look at these people as leaders and entrepreneurs, not just farmers, if we provide these people with supply chain support, if we strengthen their networks and develop the linkage with buyers, I truly believe we can make a difference.

Or as one of the attending Cargill executives put it: “Making sure Africa can realize its agricultural potential will not only enable it to feed its own people, it will help lift its citizens out of poverty and serve as a cornerstone for broader economic growth.”

I see our experiences and dialogues as part of this journey, as the starting point for future collaborations, and a source of inspiration for each of us as we return to our various careers and organizations with the shared goal of building a more food-secure world. Our role as trusted innovator starts by stepping out of our comfort zones into unfamiliar territory and engaging with people who challenge our assumptions – and building from there.

More Facts and Figures:

80% of Africans work in the agriculture and food sectors. (Chicago Council 2015)

Agriculture accounts for 32% of Africa’s GDP. (World Bank 2014)

One quarter of the continent’s population is chronically undernourished.

African agriculture and food sectors are expected to reach $1 trillion by 2030.

Africa is currently on course to produce just 15% of its estimated food demand in 2030. (Global Harvest Initiative 2014)

Africa is home to 8 of the 15 fastest growing economies.

80% of the farmers in Africa are smallholders (cultivating less than two hectares/five acres).

Ownership of more than 90% of Africa’s rural land is undocumented.

Africa now has more mobile phone users than the U.S. or the EU: 650 million. (World Bank 2012)

About SAP Customer & Partner Cargill

Cargill is an international provider of food, agricultural, and risk management products and services and has more than 100,000 employees in 60 countries. As one Cargill executive put it: “Cargill and SAP are joined at the hip.” With technology from SAP, Cargill gained a solid, scalable platform to support growth and managed to reduce IT operating costs from $42 million to $13 million. SAP helps Cargill to manage everything from contracts with farmers to inventory tracking, and to support commodity futures trading.

]]>0John Wardhttp://www.news-sap.com/?p=1209862015-07-30T15:35:56Z2015-07-30T14:15:33ZWhen you listen to experts in the field, it is easy to conclude that digital technology is transforming education as much as Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press did nearly 600 years ago.

The talk is not all hyperbole.

The impact of these technologies goes far beyond smart boards in classrooms and learning games in computer labs. Many advocates believe digital technology has the potential to dramatically expand access to education to underserved children worldwide.

Table Stakes for the 21st Century

In a speech delivered as part of the annual South by Southwest family of conferences in Texas, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called technology the new platform for learning.

“Technology isn’t an option that schools may or may not choose for their kids,” says Duncan, “technological competency is a requirement for entry into the global economy . . . ”

Indeed, technology-enabled education seems like a natural fit for a generation of tech-savvy school children raised on video games and text messaging. One survey found that 53% of American children already have their own a cell phone by the time they reach seven years old.

Duncan Clark, a British tech investor and founder of e-learning company Epic Group, sees educational value in this kind of ubiquity.

Beyond Familiarity

But familiarity is only part of what is driving the technology revolution in education.

Secretary Duncan also expressed his belief that technology is the game changer we desperately need to improve achievement and increase equity for historically underserved children and communities.

Digital technologies, for example, offer unique opportunities to many millions of children who are underserved by traditional educational programs.

Educators Ted Hasselbring and Candyce Williams Glaser write that computer technology has enhanced the development of sophisticated devices that assist “in overcoming a wide range of limitations that hinder classroom participation––from speech and hearing impairments to blindness and severe physical disabilities.” These aids include word-prediction software, live-speech captioning, and control devices based on voice recognition.

The authors note that “computer technology has the potential to act as an equalizer by freeing many students from their disabilities.”

The Promise of Education for All

Educational equity fueled by technology is a global phenomenon.

Andrew Dunnett, director of the Vodafone Foundation, recently described the digital school in a box that his organization is currently using to benefit 15,000 young people in the Kakuma refugee settlement in Kenya. Each of these instant classrooms is a single case containing a laptop and 25 tablets pre-loaded with educational software aimed at children aged 7 to 20.

The kits also contain a projector, a speaker, and a hotspot modem with 3G connectivity. The tablets can connect to the laptop locally, enabling teachers to deliver content and applications to the students. All of the components can be charged simultaneously from a single power source while the case is locked. Once charged, the kits can be used for a full day in a classroom without access to electricity.

“There are over 50 million refugees and displaced people worldwide,” writes Dunnett. “Half of the world’s refugees are under the age of 18 and are displaced from their homes for an average of 17 years with little or no access to education.”

The Vodafone Foundation story is perhaps the best example of the transformative power of digital technology. It has the ability to provide access to education for children around the world who are limited by socioeconomics, geography, different abilities, or world politics.

It’s interesting. In many respects, isn’t this exactly what the printing press did in its time?

Hear more about technology and education in a replay of the “Meet the Visionary Game-Changers” radio episode on from July 23. Oisin Walton, Instant Network Programme Manager at Vodafone Foundation; Karim Ramji, Senior Advisor, Consulting at Deloitte Canada; and Alicia Lenze, Head of Global Corporate Social Responsibility at SAP SE, were part of a live panel discussion titled Technology and Education: Empowering Youth Worldwide.

You can also follow the conversation on Twitter via #SAPRadio. And if you miss the live episode, be sure to click on the link above anytime to hear a recording of the show.

]]>0Susan Galerhttp://www.news-sap.com/?p=1208602015-07-31T12:13:56Z2015-07-30T13:00:52ZThought-provoking ideas from inspiring keynotes, relevant real-world customer experiences, interactive demos of the latest innovations from HR experts – these are just a few of the reasons I’m excited about attending SuccessConnect 2015, and why it has become the premier annual HR event for experts worldwide.

The theme, “Simplifying the Way the World Works,” reflects the kind of innovative plus immediately usable insights participants will gain at this year’s event being held August 10-12 in Las Vegas. Here are just a few highlights of what’s in store.

Inspiring Keynotes

SAP CEO Bill McDermott’s first decision as CEO of SAP was to bring the CHRO closer than ever before. At SuccessConnect 2015, he’ll share his perspectives on building great teams and creating data-driven, seamless workplaces in the digital economy.

Mike Ettling, President: HR Line of Business at SAP/SuccessFactors, will discuss the four major trends changing the modern workplace and the subsequent role of HR and HR leaders. He’ll talk about how HR can drive the business agenda of the future, along with how SAP is paying off on its customer commitments. These include the SFX (SuccessFactors Expert) training and accreditation program that helps customers get the greatest value from their investment, and what’s educationally next this October following the wildly popular “Introduction to SuccessFactors” MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) offered on openSAP.

Real world customer and partner insights

This is a tiny fraction of the many industry leaders attending SuccessConnect 2015 who will spotlight how they are transforming their businesses through strategic HR.

Boston Scientific Company: CIO Rich Adduci and Head of HR Operations Nitin Mittal will talk about the impact of the “power couple”, what happens when IT and HR partner to drive change.

Under Armour – Expanding Company Growth Globally with SuccessFactors Recruiting and Onboarding: learn how this global sports and apparel and accessories retailer is using SuccessFactors Recruiting and Onboarding, as well as BizX Mobile, to simplify HR processes and the user experience, driving efficiency that helps support massive company growth plans.

Prospect Mortgage – Crafting a Millennial Solution: find out how one of largest independent residential retail lenders partnered with SuccessFactors to transform learning with a strategy addressing Millennials in the workplace.

Partners: numerous SAP/SuccessFactors partners will be on hand, sharing how they’re extending the value of SAP/SuccessFactors solutions for innovation that delivers fast business outcomes for customers.

Giving Back in Africa – Tweet to save animals and fight poverty

For every tweet sent with both #sconnect15 and #ERP between August 3-14, SAP will donate $1 to ERP, an initiative that fights poaching and poverty in Africa.

This year SAP/SuccessFactors is teaming up with the ERP (Elephants, Rhinos and People) initiative of groupelephant.com to help raise awareness of the tragic consequences of elephant and rhino poaching in Africa. Poverty is the leading cause of this slaughter. This group is focused on ERP projects to preserve and protect threatened elephants and rhinos in the world, creating economic engines to alleviate poverty among rural people. For every tweet sent with both #sconnect15 and #ERP between August 3-14, SAP will donate $1 to ERP. Anyone can tweet to donate; it’s not necessary to attend the event. For more information about the program, click here.

Registration is still open for the opportunity to network with the world’s foremost HR experts, and gain the hands-on strategies needed for strategic business success simply, through HR. I hope to see you in Las Vegas!

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]]>0SAP Newshttp://www.news-sap.com/?p=1209682015-07-29T19:25:44Z2015-07-30T13:00:07ZWALLDORF —SAP SE (NYSE: SAP), together with thousands of customers and partners, successfully concluded one of the largest crowdsourcing initiatives in the enterprise world.

The SAP Fiori user experience is the latest SAP innovation for business software. Applying modern design principles and delivering a personalized, role-based experience across lines of business, it optimizes usability on different types of devices to improve business interactions and ease use. SAP Business Suite software includes many SAP Fiori apps, but SAP customers have innovative business processes of their own to differentiate themselves from the competition. SAP HANA Cloud Platform addresses their need to build applications to support those business processes and integrate them with SAP Business Suite applications.

As part of the course’s hands-on learning experience, participants built their own SAP Fiori apps using SAP Web IDE and SAP HANA Cloud Platform. SAP Web IDE is a cloud-based integrated development environment with a growing set of embedded tools that cover the development process end to end. The development environment allows users to collaborate with business experts and designers to fulfill user requirements and expectations more effectively.

Beyond its innovative technology platform, SAP attributes this crowdsourcing success to the combination of the following key factors:

Weekly open forums specific to current course material focused collaboration among learners and SAP experts and fed valuable feedback into the following week’s course content.

Enterprise gamification, here in the form of an app creation challenge, sparked competitive instincts that led to unusually high participation and completion rates.

Peer reviews of the submitted apps made scalability in the grading process possible.

Many of the learner-submitted SAP Fiori apps were of production-level quality, a feat the judges credited to the fact that learning content was based on the tried-and-proven SAP Best Practices family of packages.

“Every participant in the app challenge gained valuable skills in creating SAP Fiori apps for their own unique use cases while having a lot of fun amidst intense interaction, especially when compared to traditional learning experiences,” said Michael Kleinemeier, member of the Global Managing Board of SAP SE. “Enterprise gamification combined with SAP Best Practices packages, a cloud-based development environment and a massive open online course platform are a winning combination.”

The challenge of developing SAP Fiori apps on the openSAP platform inspired thousands of participants to work within the context of their individual experiences to build for their own use cases. The initiative testifies to the commitment and renewed focus of SAP on customer user experience, with SAP planning to offer more of these unique learning experiences in the near future.

For more information on the app challenge program and to view the winning apps, please visit the gallery. For more information, visit the SAP News Center. Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews.

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So you’re a woman and you want to start – or expand – your own business. That’s great! Women are the fastest growing segment of business owners in the U.S. today. But here’s the rub: compared to men, women tend to have smaller companies, generate less revenue, and employ fewer people.

What accounts for these differences? And what can you do about?

Our panelists will reveal the key factors holding women back, plus solid advice for business success – for female and male entrepreneurs. These are insights you won’t want to miss.

The experts speak.

Jane Wesman, Jane Wesman Public Relations, Inc.: “The road to success is not a solitary journey.”

Sandi Webster, Consultants 2 Go, LLC: “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.” (Madeleine Albright)

]]>0Jeff Woodshttp://www.news-sap.com/?p=1209592015-07-29T16:10:47Z2015-07-29T15:00:44ZWith the introduction of the Digitalist Magazine, we announced a new direction in our journey to fully embrace the emergence of the digital economy – a worldwide transformation of the way that we connect with each other and to the things with which we work.

This is the Digitalist journey: a Digitalist is anyone with the leadership responsibility of helping their enterprise strategize and execute the digital transformation. This is important to enterprises globally, as they seek to create new value and improve the way we live.

We have received overwhelming positive support for this direction from you, our readers, and recruited new Digitalists around the world. We encourage you to continue to comment and provide feedback to us on how we can help you be successful in your Digitalist mission. The Digitalist Magazine, Online Edition is your always-on digital companion on this journey – providing the latest news and analysis of what’s important in the digital economy.

Today, I’m proud to make another announcement in furthering our quest to help Digitalists succeed: Digitalist Magazine, Executive Quarterly. The Executive Quarterly is a tablet-based magazine distillation of technologies and business strategies that are gaining momentum, and that you can capitalize upon today. It is written with a strategic enterprise view, specifically to help executives understand the digital economy, but more importantly, apply it to their own large-scale enterprise transformation.

This interactive format allows us to richly engage Digitalists and step back with a higher level of analysis to deliver the broad insights you need to stay ahead in this economy. We begin the inaugural edition of the Quarterly with the Digital Economy Manifesto, bringing you the seven Digitalist Principles. Then, in the front of the magazine, called Push, we cover the who and where at the forefront of the digital economy. In the center of the magazine, called Profit, we cover emerging mainstream topics that you can apply to your business today. And we will always end with #boldlydigital to help you bring everything together and apply an executive perspective to change in enterprises.

We hope this additional format, filled with deep insights and analysis, will help each executive fulfill a mission with their enterprise. Ultimately, these innovations come together to help the world run better and improve people’s lives.

DigitalistMagazine, Executive Quarterly, is an app that is free to download for tablets, only from the Apple and Google Play app stores.